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Day: February 22, 2011
OTR Links for 02/22/2011
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Google Bookmarks – Delicious to Google Bookmarks Import
This tool helps you import your Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks
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A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking
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Making the case for Facebook in education
Making the case for Facebook in education
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The History of Computers 1938 to 2010 [Infographic]
What a long, strange trip it’s been! How The Giant computers transformed from to modern technology. Yes, I am talking about The History of Computer which started it’s journey in 1940s Complex number Calculater to iPad 2010. But there are so many of us who love to see the statistics. Here, we have found an infographic in which you can see the massive size of Computer History in numbers
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From COSN, guidance about Acceptable Use Policies
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Oregon Apps K-12 is the suite of Google Apps for Education available to all Oregon K-12 school districts under an Oregon-Google statewide agreement. The Oregon Virtual School District provides training and support for these tools. Our team of trainers is available for in-person and virtual training events. We also facilitate regularly scheduled webinars for instructional and tech staff, host regional and state Google Apps mini-conferences, and present ORVSD and Google Apps sessions at events like ITSC, NCCE, and OSBA.
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Dreamwidth Studios is a home for creative artists of all types. Share your writing, your artwork, or your innermost thoughts. Find others who create the sort of things you like to enjoy. Control who can see your creation with our fine-grained privacy controls. Participate in communities for any one of a hundred topics. We are an independent, Open Source, community-centric service, and we support diversity in all its forms. Come dream with us.
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Social networking for teenagers – no adults allowed.
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CoSketch.com – Online Whiteboard Collaboration
CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.
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Wordfaire : The fast and easy live blogging platform
Real-time live blogging platform
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Trace your friends from foursquare :: fourtrace.com
Location based social networks like “Foursquare” and “Facebook places” are growing rapidly. Thousands of people share thousands of updates every hour, but not everyone thinks about what they’re actually sharing.
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Playable Angry Birds Cake Is Deliciously Amazing [VIDEO]
The megapopular multi-platform game Angry Birds has inspired all sorts of weird and amazing creations, but the playable Angry Birds cake, courtesy of the folks from Electricpig, is definitely the most creative one we’ve seen so far.
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Foundation congratulates the winners of the 2011 Sloan Research Fellowships, 118 young researchers nominated by their peers in recognition of their exceptional early-career achievements and potential to contribute significantly to their fields
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How to Know If Your Email Has Been Read – or how many times a link has been clicked
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❏ Tablets Informatory: The NoteSlate’s Official Website Now Up
The NoteSlate is a note-taking tablet with a 13-inch screen. This incredibly thin device is used for writing, drawing and e-book readings and comes with a stylus. Its resolution is 1080 x 760 and its display is similar to E-ink.
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Curriculum Collaboration Toolkit
Effective teaching with technology matches the teacher’s goals and the learner’s characteristics and needs, with tools that enhance understanding.
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Guideline on Teaching Storytelling
Excellent resource for teaching about storytelling.
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Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa — country by country – CNN.com
Two months ago, a Tunisian fruit vendor lit a match that started a fire that has spread throughout the Arab world. Muhammad Bouazizi’s self-immolation prompted anti-government protests that toppled the regime in Tunisia and then Egypt. The demonstrations have spread across a vast swath of the Middle East and North Africa. Here are the latest developments, including the roots of the unrest.
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Creative and fun activities from Canon.
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Most of these lesson plans work with a large age range (with appropriate adjustments in level of sophistication), but I’ve listed them here in approximate order, from youngest to oldest. These lessons are presented with fairly specific instructions, for the most part, but should not be understood as carved-in-stone methods. Every teacher will have her or his individual slant on these activities.
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Richard Byrne’s Favorite Tech Resources for Teachers
links for 2011-02-21
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Reed College has conducted two studies of e-readers. ‘During fall semester 2010, students in an upper division course are using the iPad to read the assigned books and articles. The course, Political Science 422: Nuclear Politics — The origins and effects of the spread of nuclear weapons, is one of the classes that took part in Reed’s study of the Amazon Kindle DX during fall 2009.’
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Google Templates for Student Projects
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The visual word clouds created by Wordle and other word cloud services on the web aren’t anything new, they’ve been around for a few years. However, like a great many newer web 2.0 tools, I quite often see a lot of ineffective use of these tools in the classroom. That’s not to say I think the teachers themselves are ineffective, in fact it’s usually the most tech savvy and educational effective teachers that are using tools like Wordle.
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The National Broadband Map is a tool to search, analyze and map broadband availability across the United States.
Created and maintained by the NTIA, in collaboration with the FCC, and in partnership with 50 states, five territories and the District of Columbia. -
The Twitterverse is abuzz with news that Twitter suspended popular mobile apps such as UberTwitter, UberCurrent, and twidroyd today. The services had not recently changed anything about the functionality or behavior of the apps, which leads one to wonder why Twitter suddenly decided to shut them down.
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The internet is a big place. But when you rely on people, and not algorithms, you get a chance to see things differently. Take a peek
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National Science Digital Library
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FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.
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Twitter announced Friday that it has suspended popular third-party Twitter clients UberTwitter and Twidroyd for policy violations.
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Cool collection of interactive experiments.
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Welcome to the iPads in School Livebinder
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The message describes what was a method of hacking a Facebook account via a phishing attack where the scammer sets up a website to look exactly like the Facebook login page in order to fool users into entering their Facebook password and username which are duly stolen by the scammer.
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1-click meetings are here. Public and viral, or private and secure.
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Use this for a smarter Twitter search
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Welcome to Java WIDE, the place where individuals and teams can freely make and share Java applications and applets, all without installing any software. JavaWIDE is being used across the United States and around the world. Click on a pin to see who is using JavaWIDE near you.
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Interesting simulation of Twitter followers
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Pixable, maker of a tool for organizing images on Facebook makes a great case for its product by pointing out that the social network will have 100 billion photos by this summer, based on current growth patterns.
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Layout can both be one of the easiest and one of the trickiest facets of web design. Sometimes a designer can bust out an amazing layout in minutes and sometimes that same designer can struggle for the better part of day with the same task.
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Here is some news that I’m sure you gadget geeks will appreciate, especially if you’re lacking memory space or need to take your saved data with you for whatever reason. Warner Bros. have teamed up with Mimoco to produce a series of Batman USB flash drives.
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Ken Jennings, the 74-time winner of the popular trivia quiz, and Brad Rutter, a 20-time champion, have gone head-to-hard-drive with an IBM supercomputer called Watson three times in the past three days. Unlike in The Terminator, they lost each time.
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Tag yourself at the concert!
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Listen, create and share
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Julie centered her talk around a model of curriculum development called TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge), which involves deliberate conceptualization of the pedagogy behind lesson planning, understanding of area content, consideration of the impact of the technological tools on learning outcomes, and reflection on the ways that these areas may or may not overlap.
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Zoom in on this graphic in which the world's 7 billion population is depicted by 7,000 human figures, each representing a million people.
doug --- off the record 